“Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.”
Source: Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
“Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.”
Source: Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want
“Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts……Knowing is KEY to acceptance.”
“Learning is the first quality of acceptance and vice versa”
“I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am.
It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself.”
Source: Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
“Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.”
“What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.”
Source: Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
“I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It's a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that's it. I haven't gone through thirty odd years of suffering, and doing what I do, and looking at other people who are born and die with cancer, with AIDS, with whatever, and think, 'well, what was the point of that?'. There is a point to everything, and we're here to learn, and it's just a learning curve and we'll move on, and this is just a shell. It's just I've got a dodgy shell.”
“Where there seems to be no hope, hold on to a hand that is able to open big doors.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.”
Source: The Book of Broken Hearts